Working in WordPress on site or blog can be boring and time-consuming. But why stress yourself when there are so many plugins and ways to automate wordpress tasks.

There are great free and paid plugins available. One that stands out is IFTTT. It is not limited to WordPress and most importantly it is FREE.

IFTTT is a service that lets other services or software (like WordPress, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, ect.) talk to each and perform actions when certain things occur.

It has quickly become the ultimate automation service for small tasks between Internet-connected services. It can help you update Facebook from WordPress blog.

Or you can automatically tweet every time you publish a new blog post. There are tons of plugins for that, here is a method that doesn’t require any plugins.

Automate WordPress Tasks with IFTTT

IFTTT stands for “if this then that.” For example, you can set up an IFTTT “recipe” (as they’re called) that goes something like this:

When I Like an image on Instagram, upload the image to Google Drive

When I add new post on my site, a link to it automatically gets published on my page at Facebook

Send an email in Gmail and have it post to your WordPress site

There are currently 108 different services or “channels” that you can hook up together. Each has its own set of triggers or actions.

For example, if you make a status update on one service (a trigger), IFTTT will ensure an action takes place on another channel to, for example, repost that update.

Combine them just right and you can create a daisy chain of triggers and actions across a number of services, where just one post could hit almost every corner of your Web presence.

Automate WordPress Tasks

All the big names are supported on IFTTT. For social networking there is Facebook profiles, Facebook Pages, LinkedIn, Twitter… There are Google services like YouTube, Google Drive, Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Talk.

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